Ontario’s left-of-centre parties and their supporters need to accept a basic political reality. As long as they continue to split their votes three ways, they are going to lose election after election.

Recent polls couldn’t be much better for PC leader Doug Ford. The latest Leger poll for the National Post shows the PCs with 47-per-cent support. The Liberals are at 23 per cent, the NDP 17 and the Greens eight per cent. The PCs dominate in every geographic area of the province; there are no progressive strongholds left.